Spheric Technologies markets patented Spheric/Syno-Therm™ microwave sintering systems and technologies for the powdered metals and advanced ceramics industries, and is developing microwave treatment systems for the mining and wastewater industries. The Company has also developed and patented technology for the production of fine-particle, high-purity metal oxides.

Energy-Efficient Microwave Metal & Ceramics Processing

The Company holds the exclusive United States license for a group of patents covering the use of microwave technology to sinter (bind at high temperature, without bulk melting) powdered metal components and other materials for industrial use. The patents also cover industrial microwave furnace design and microwave heating. (The license was granted by The Penn State Research Foundation, the intellectual property arm of Pennsylvania State University.) Microwave sintering reduces energy use up to 80 percent, and improves throughput time up to 90 percent over conventional methods.

Microwave technology applications include:

• Sintering of PM parts
• Sintering of electronic, technical and transparent ceramics
• Microwave-assisted joining
• Microwave-assisted melting
• Microwave-assisted diffusion coating and surface modification
• Microwave-assisted drying
• Microwave-assisted synthesis of high-tech ceramics
• Pure electric or magnetic field processing at microwave frequencies
• Advanced processing technologies for consolidated nanophase materials
• Solvo-thermal synthesis

Spheric Technologies is the exclusive U.S. importer/distributor of Syno-Therm™ industrial high-temperature microwave systems specifically designed to utilize the Penn State patents. The Company markets a systems package, consisting of microwave furnaces paired with technology utilization sublicenses.

Sintered metal powder components are used in a wide range of products and applications in the automotive industry, aerospace, heavy machinery and other markets.

The Company is working closely with the Microwave Processing Center at Penn State, and is installing microwave equipment and providing technical support at the Arizona State University School of Materials Science in a cooperative effort to demonstrate and expand the utilization of industrial microwave processing.

Spheric Technologies also holds patent licenses covering certain advanced ceramic products and processes that may also be sublicensed.

The Company’s technologies enable reduced energy consumption, a lower carbon footprint and a cleaner environment.